This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in Sinner Saint: A Surprising Primer to the Christian Life (1517 Publishing, 2025). Sinner Saint is available today from 1517 Publishing.
05/12/25
On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.
05/09/25
We needn’t fear statistics and studies as palm readings into a certain future. God is God, and his Spirit is alive through his Word.
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11/19/22
The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
11/17/22
You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
11/14/22
You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.
11/12/22
That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
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11/12/22
The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
11/05/22
Peterson would have us see each sermon embedded in the community of the faithful. No sermon stands alone because its context is not merely the liturgy, much less an online livestream, but the life together of God’s people.
11/03/22
We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
10/30/22
Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.
10/30/22
The name of God invites us on a journey to see how God will remain present with his people, listen to their cries for salvation, know their sufferings in such an intimate way so as to incarnate them in Christ.
10/30/22
The words of Jesus shine with a graceful brilliance among the broken fragments of this world.
10/26/22
The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.
10/24/22
Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
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